Progressive
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
died at the age of 87 from "complications" from her pancreatic cancer, the court said in a statement on Friday.
The court indicated that the magistrate "died tonight surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, DC, due to complications from a metastasis in pancreatic cancer."
In the same statement, the head of the US Supreme Court,
John Roberts,
appointed by former Republican President
George W. Bush
(2001-2009), paid tribute to the magistrate.
"Our nation," said Roberts, "has lost a jurist of historic stature. All of us on the Supreme Court have lost a beloved companion. Today we are in mourning, but we are confident that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and determined champion of justice. "
Nominated by former President
Bill Clinton
in 1993, Ginsburg was the oldest judge of the nine that make up the Supreme Court and in recent years had had
health problems
that had forced several hospital admissions.
The judge had
been fighting cancer
for
years:
in 2009 she overcame a pancreatic
cancer
;
in 2018 they had to remove malignant nodules from her left lung;
and in the summer of 2019 the tumor reappeared in the pancreas.
Cancer also took away the love of her life, her husband, Martin Ginsburg, who died in 2010.
Ginsburg had
been on the Supreme Court
for nearly
three decades,
arriving in 1993 as the second woman in history to serve on this court, after a career dedicated to feminist causes and civil rights.
The health of the magistrate, due to her advanced age, has had the country in suspense, especially the progressive ranks, who feared that if Ginsburg left the Supreme Court, his replacement would be chosen by the president, Donald Trump, to expand the already existing majority conservative of the most important court in the country.
Wailing at the makeshift altar this Friday on the steps of the US Supreme Court.ALEXANDER DRAGOREUTERS
The president and the magistrate had a
difficult relationship
after Ginsburg called him a
"phony"
before the 2016 election, a comment he had to retract and that prompted Trump to call for his resignation.
The Supreme is composed of nine judges with life positions, currently five conservatives and four progressives.
Trump managed in his first year as president to get the Republican majority in the Senate to give the green light to his first nominee for the Supreme Court, Justice
Neil Gorsuch,
and then, on October 6, 2018, he did the same for
Brett Kavanaugh,
accused sexual abuse, put on the robe in high court.
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